{"id":27115,"date":"2020-11-11T08:14:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T14:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27115"},"modified":"2020-11-11T08:14:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T14:14:57","slug":"musical-balance-autumn-2020-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/11\/musical-balance-autumn-2020-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Balance, Autumn 2020 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, 2020.  What a year.  I was gainfully employed for much of it and housebound, which meant I comfort purchased CDs at an astounding clip.  My <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/category\/musical-balance\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">musical balance post from May<\/a> indicates covered nine months and included 18 albums and three MP3 singles.  Before I start tabulating the results in real time here as I write the post, I&#8217;m going to have to take the &#8220;over&#8221; bet.<\/p>\n<p>Well, tuck it, I don&#8217;t know if any of you are interested in these posts, so I will once again abuse the below-the-fold feature.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Since I ordered <em>The Birth of the Cool<\/em> on May 25, I have gotten:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>A Woman Like Me<\/em> by Lindsay Webster; I heard her (and still do) on heavy rotation on WSIE which is my default Internet streaming background music.<\/li>\n<li><em>For All We Know<\/em> by Gloria Reuben with some dude.  I think Charles posted something from her back in the day, which prompted me to buy her first album back then.<\/li>\n<li><em>Alive<\/em> by Hiromi, a jazz pianist whom WSIE played once or twice.<\/li>\n<li><em>Spectrum<\/em> by Hiromi.  Why buy one when I can buy two?  She actually has a number of albums in her catalog; I probably got the two least expensive.<\/li>\n<li><em>Battle Beast<\/em> by Battle Beast.<\/li>\n<li><em>Steel<\/em> by Battle Beast.<\/li>\n<li><em>Berserker<\/em> by Beast in Black.<\/li>\n<li><em>From Hell With Love<\/em> by Beast in Black.  You might find it easy to confuse these two.  Beast in Black was cofounded by a former guitarist from Battle Beast which explains the similarity in names perhaps.  Battle Beast has a female lead vocalist; Beast in Black has a male with a relatively high voice.  That should help you keep them straight.<\/li>\n<li><em>Echo<\/em> by Keiko Matsui.  An artist I heard on WSIE; I am trying to grow my collection of her albums, but her back catalog is prolific and goes back to the 1980s, so it will be a while.<\/li>\n<li><em>Human :II: Nature<\/em> by Nightwish.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Deviant Hearts<\/em> by Phantasma.  I think I found this band whilst letting YouTube run.  The lead singer was in another band I heard, but I forget which one; when I look into it, I think, &#8220;Oh, yeah!&#8221; and then I forget again.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Little Things<\/em> by Cindy Bradley, who might be the second prettiest American trumpet player in the world.<\/li>\n<li><em>Bliss<\/em> by Cindy Bradley.<\/li>\n<li><em>Bloom<\/em> by Cindy Bradley.  I have now completed my Cindy Bradley set, which means I own all of her albums unless she releases one soon while I am pretending to be fiscally responsible.<\/li>\n<li><em>Soul Quest<\/em> by Keiko Matsui.<\/li>\n<li><em>Colors<\/em> by Catie Waters, a young jazz singer in very heavy rotation on WSIE.<\/li>\n<li><em>Wildflower<\/em> by Keiko Matsui.<\/li>\n<li><em>Dream Walk<\/em> by Keiko Matsui.  With this much of her work (but not a majority of her work), I am starting to detect similarities and motifs across her catalog which might slow my accumulation down a bit.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Piano<\/em> by Keiko Matsui.<\/li>\n<li><em>East\/Providence<\/em> by Hiroshima.  A two CD set which I&#8217;ll count as two.  Like Keiko Matsui, Hiroshima&#8217;s back catalog goes back to the 1980s and looks fairly expensive.  Which is a shame because I like them.  But I should now have as many CDs from Hiroshima as I have LPs.<\/li>\n<li><em>Revolution<\/em> by Damascus, a project from a guy I went to school with.  A digital download.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Yes, I Have Ghosts&#8221; by David Gilmour.  It would be nice to get another album from him; the last was <em>On an Island<\/em> which came out when I lived in Old Trees.<\/li>\n<li><em>Violent Allies<\/em> by 10 Years.  Signed because I ordered it from the artist&#8217;s Web site.<\/li>\n<li><em>All Wandering Hearts<\/em> by Nicole Zuraitis.<\/li>\n<li><em>Here and Now<\/em> by Erin Bode on vinyl so I could listen to it upstairs if only the damned cheap shelf-top record player had not died after six months AGAIN.<\/li>\n<li><em>Listen to This<\/em> by Lisa Addeo who appears on WSIE from time to time.  Digital download.<\/li>\n<li><em>A Kind of Daydream<\/em> by Lisa Addeo.  A digital download in a Zip file whose filenames were ultimately too long for Windows, so I had to do some surgery on them before I could extract the music.<\/li>\n<li><em>Thirsty Ghost<\/em> by Sara Gazarek, her new CD.<\/li>\n<li><em>Hot Sauce<\/em> by Jessy J, the saxophonist, not the pop tart.<\/li>\n<li><em>My One and Only One<\/em> by Jessy J.<\/li>\n<li><em>California Christmas<\/em> by Jessy J.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been ordering from the artists&#8217; Web sites wherever possible as you can often get signed CDs or thank you notes from the artists, and I assume that the artist gets a bigger cut of it than if I order from Amazon.  But I might be naive in that regard.<\/p>\n<p>So how&#8217;s the balance?  Of 30 albums (I am glad I took the over), we have 8 metal and 22 jazz songbirds or instrumentalists.  Clearly, I was more in the mood to be mellowed and soothed than to amp up.  We also have a single single (David Gilmour); that will likely change as I have some Amazon credit.  Maybe I will use the credits to pick up a discounted or free digital copy of the new Amaranthe album or the newest Semblant album.<\/p>\n<p>However, I am in a belt-tightened mode where I&#8217;m laying off of the impulse purchases of CDs for the nonce, so the next posting in this series might be far in the future, or it might be in a couple of months if I land some fuller time work and feel flush again.  I know, <em>poor little unfortunate me<\/em>, but if I don&#8217;t purchase an artist that I discover and that I like right away, <em>I forget about that artist<\/em> (what a blessing to have so many good artists presented to me!).  <\/p>\n<p>For example, I recently heard on WSIE a jazz flutist from Kansas City who cited <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/17\/something-i-never-imagined-myself-saying\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Herbie Mann<\/a> as an influence.  You see, I hear the song, I search the Web, I read the Web site, I impulse order or not, and then I move on.  In this case, the artist has an album forthcoming but not out yet, so I didn&#8217;t order (also, I am being pseudofrugal).  And then I forgot the artist&#8217;s name.  I was telling my beautiful wife about her, but all I could remember was that she had a middle nickname that was something like McFlutealicious or something.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s only because I remembered those keywords <em>jazz flute kansas city<\/em> that I was able to find her: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flutienastiness.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amber &quot;Flutienastiness&quot; Underwood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Uh, Bing?<\/p>\n<p>This is not Amber Flutienastiness:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/notamberflutenastiness.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>This is Amber Flutienastiness:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/amberflutenastiness.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I know, I know; it&#8217;s my own typo (flutenastiness versus flutienastiness) that spurred the images of some other Amber (I assume).  But I thought it would be a humorous throwback to the <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/25\/easily-confused-to-an-algorithm\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrong Naz<\/a> post.<\/p>\n<p>Properly spelling it in the search reveals that she made her new album <em><a href=\"https:\/\/flutienastiness.bandcamp.com\/album\/this-is-me\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><rm>This Is Me<\/a><\/em> available on Bandcamp probably after the first time I researched her.  It&#8217;s only $7, but I&#8230; am&#8230; acting&#8230; with&#8230; fiscal&#8230; restraint&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Join us next time for these riveting tales of my conspicuous consumerism to find out how soon it will be before I buy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, 2020. What a year. I was gainfully employed for much of it and housebound, which meant I comfort purchased CDs at an astounding clip. My musical balance post from May indicates covered nine months and included 18 albums and three MP3 singles. Before I start tabulating the results in real time here as I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musical-balance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27115"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27119,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27115\/revisions\/27119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}